Obama gets Muslim question in small-town cafe

The Baltimore Sun ^ | 12/22/2007 | John McCormick

[whitedog57]

Agree 100%.

Focus on what he is GOING to do. Which is 100% labor unions, tariffs, higher taxes, etc.

I wish the media (including Fox) would put the candidates’ feet to the fire about what they WANT to do.

[UCANSEE2]

“The Koran sanctions, even mandates, deviousness if it is to the benefit of Islam.”

The DNC sanctions, even mandates, deviousness if it is to the benefit of Democratic(socialist) Party Leaders.

[weegee]

There is no practice in life. We just “do it”.

[Beckwith]

i>... same old warmed over socialism from the 60s

Yup, there's that too.

In his first memoir, "Dreams," Obama included a description of black student life at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

"There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs," he wrote.  "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."

He added: "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully.  The more politically active black students.  The foreign students.  The Chicanos.  The Marxist professors and structural feminists."

Obama said he and other blacks were careful not to second-guess their own racial identity in front of whites.

"To admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred," he wrote.

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[Beckwith]

There's lots of Muslims supporting Obama. Kinda makes you go, "Hmmmmmmmmmmm?"

Muslim Americans for Obama '08' features the masthead comment, "DONATE TODAY: One $1 DOLLAR for ONE NATION UNDER GOD"

In case there is any doubt as to which "God" these folks are speaking of, the first two paragraphs make it abundantly clear.

With God's Name ~ Quran 49:13 Oh Mankind! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that you may know one another. The best of you, in the sight of God, is the best in conduct. Allah is the best knower, aware.

As Salaam Alaikum, (The Peace of God Be Upon You) and welcome to Muslim Americans for Obama'08.

[Beckwith]

Can somebody just ask him flat-out if he’s ever recited the shahada? Yes or no, Barack?

That's a key question.

According to Tine Hahiyary, one of Obama's teachers and the principal from 1971 throuh 1989, Barry actively took part in the Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school.  His teacher was named Maimunah and she lived in the Puncak area, the Cianjur Regency.

"I remembered that he had studied "menjaji" (recitation of the Quran)" Tine said.

Do you think that once in two years of Islamic studies, he did?

[Beckwith]

His father was Muslim

And his grandfather and stepfather.

Obama routinely describes his father as not religious, but he was buried using Islamic rites.

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[Beckwith]

I am mostly concerned about the fact that billions of Muslims around the world would see him as our first Muslim President.

An American Expat in Indonesia reports that in late August, Obama released the Indonesian translation of his book "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming The American Dream", over here in Southeast Asia I was completely taken aback not only by the violent imagery in new title of the book, "Menerjang Harapan: Dari Jakarta Menuju Gedung Putih", but by the fact that it was not really a translation at all, but rather a completely different title than the original book.

A correct translation of the title of Obama's book would have been "Keberanian Harapan: Pemikiran Untuk Meraih Kembali Impian America" which translates into "Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming The American Dream".  However, the title for the Indonesian translation of Barack Obama's book is "Menerjang Harapan: Dari Jakarta Menuju Gedung Putih" which translates into "Assault Hope: From Jakarta to the White House".

The problem with direct translations is that often times they never make sense. The words "menerjang" (assault or attack) and "harapan" (hope or expectation) make sense when used separately, but used together, the term "menerjang harapan" makes no sense in Indonesian. But while the term makes no sense, it does however present a mental picture to the native Indonesian speaker, the imagery of a "hopeful assault" a "struggle for victory" or to put it more bluntly, a "jihad", or as the Indonesians see it, Obama's "jihad" for the Whitehouse.  For the native Indonesian speaker, this figurative language creates a mental image whereas the translation of the book's title can actually come to mean "Jihad: From Jakarta To The Whitehouse".

Read more at An American Expat in Indonesia

[BunnySlippers]

He never practiced.....

Suspiciously like the line, "I did not inhale".

[Beckwith]

Another question:

Do you accept Christ and reject Islam?

[Starboard]

Unfortunately, his political views and experience don't warrant a vote.

You could say that about any of the Dem candidates. Can you imagine what would happen to the stock market if one of them were elected? Kiss your 401k goodbye.